This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLMediaElement.pause() method will pause playback of the media, if the media is already in a paused state this method will have no effect.
pause()
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| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-media-pause-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
pause |
3 | 12 | 3.5 | ≤12.1 | 3.1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 3 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/pause